Next time you encounter an abortion advocate speaking about 'legalized' abortion being "necessary" to protect women from "unsafe illegal abortion", why not call them on it? As pro-life sites have been reporting, there is a growing body of evidence which shows that increased access to abortion means more, not fewer maternal deaths. For example, a recent pro-life article reports that: (emphasis may be added)
* The nation "with the lowest African maternal mortality rate" is Mauritius and their laws "are among the continent's most protective of the unborn"
* Ethiopia has recently "decriminalized" abortion and now its maternal death rate is 48 times higher than Mauritius'
* Chile - whose constitution protects the unborn - boasts the lowest maternal mortality rate in South America
* The highest maternal mortality rate in South America, 30 times higher than Chile's, has allowed abortion "without almost any restriction" since 1995
* Nicaraguan government statistics show declining maternal deaths since it enacted laws to protect the unborn
* Nepal allows abortion without restriction and has "the region's highest rate of maternal mortality" while the lowest in the region is Sri Lanka, which has "among the most restrictive abortion laws in the world"
Finally, the article points out that Ireland, in which abortion is illegal and the unborn are protected in the constitution, has the lowest maternal death rate in the world.
So the next time you hear abortion advocates arguing for "legalized" abortion to protect women from "unsafe illegal abortions", why not call them on it?
And of course it's obvious that abortion could never be "safe" for any woman or child, regardless of any law. In the act of abortion, a child is killed (most likely without the opportunity of baptism) and its mother commits a grave sin in violation of the Fifth Commandment by ordering & participating in the killing of her innocent unborn child - as well as excommunicating herself from the Church. Should she have the misfortune to die as a result of this heinous act and without any opportunity to repent, it is clear that she risks grave eternal consequences. Violating a commandment, killing your unborn child and (if Catholic) excommunicating yourself from the Church just before you meet the Just Judge is definitely not a good thing.
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